The Sandman Season 2: Complicated Gods, Closure, and Unanswered Questions

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K-Pop Demon Hunters and the Magic of Loving Yourself—Patterns and All

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Untamed and the Pain of Grief, Privilege, and Parental Guilt

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Forever on Netflix: Why Keisha Clark’s Story Broke My Heart

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A Book That Reminded Me Why I Write with Magic

Every so often, I read a book that doesn’t just entertain—it reawakens something in me.

That’s what The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia did.

Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish flu pandemic, it follows a boy wrapped in mystery, discovered covered in bees and taken in by a family grappling with love, land, and loss. There’s a quiet magic to this book—not the flashy, wand-waving kind, but the kind passed down through generations, whispered between the living and the dead.

This is the kind of magic I write with. The kind that lives in grief. The kind that looks ordinary until it suddenly isn’t.

Reading The Murmur of Bees reminded me why I write stories like The Ordinary Bruja—where the supernatural is never separate from identity, where memory and myth blur, and where healing is just as sacred as spellwork.

What stood out most was how the novel treats its characters with such grace, even when they’re messy or flawed. It gave me permission to do the same. To let my characters stumble, to let them carry inherited pain, to let them seek clarity in things the world says don’t exist.

This is why diverse books matter. They don’t just represent—they reclaim. They reflect the nuances we carry in our bodies, our histories, our silences.

I hope to write stories that do what this one did for me: slow me down. Pull me in. Make me look again—at magic, at family, at what we’re willing to believe in.

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Hello to @If_This_Goes_On, who introduced themselves this week as hosts of a science fiction podcast.

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@TheBeeGuy, founder of The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland reminded all of us of the need to take a break sometimes in the presence of nature.

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@mombian posted some thoughts this week on on LGBTQ+ friendly children books and LGBTQ+ parenting while @enriqueanarte led insightful discussions this week on FIFA's controversies.

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@andrzej1 led insightful discussions this week on humans and the extinction of insects from their perspective as a journalist and sociologist.

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@Travelwisesr led insightful discussions this week on recommended destinations in Germany based on his on expertise as a traveler.

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